Safe Searching Resources


Search on your person to get "overview" information.






You must have a Longmont Public Library Card to access/Click on icon on the LPL database page
You must have a Longmont Public Library Card to access/Click on icon on the LPL database page

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Free Web Sites

Time 100

From Time Magazine search by

Leaders & Revolutionaries | Artists & Entertainers | Builders & Titans | Scientists & Thinkers | Heroes & Icons | Person of the Century

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From the Biography Channel, this is a great first-stop resource to get an overview of your hero.

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Interesting but be careful, anyone can edit or add a biography. Validate any and all info you find here.


HINT:

Use Directories to search for specific information on people.


The Heroism Project

Students at University of California Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism researched, wrote and produced part of this timeline

Heroes of Our Time Top 50--New Statesman

Women of the Century

From Discovery Education:

One hundred years ago, many people believed a woman’s place was in the home. Women were excluded from voting booths, most colleges and universities, and all but a few professions. Now women can be found in the halls of Congress, science labs, athletic fields?even outer space. But they didn’t arrive there overnight.

Directory of Heroes

From the My Hero project, very robust and in depth collection of hero data including film clips

Search by:

angel | animals | artists | business | child | community | earthkeepers |explorers | faith | family | freedom | hero's hero | lifesavers | literary | musician | peacemakers | poets | scientists | sports | teachers | women | writers

Heroes Webquest

Load of links to additional resources.

Heroic Archetypes

Stories about heroes are deep and eternal. Joseph Campbell, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, identified both the archetype of the Hero and the quest that the hero follows, in many of the folk tales and myths of the world. This archetype, and it's journey was surprisingly invariant through many of the tales. Carol Pearson, in Awakening The Heroes Within expands the idea of the Hero into twelve distinct archetypes, each of which can follow the Hero Quest.



FREE Citation Builders

FREE websites that will create MLA (Modern Language Association) citations for research papers.

Whether you are quoting a source directly or paraphrasing from a source you MUST cite your source.


Visit Citation Help to access an MLA citation sheet for examples of resource citation formats.


Citation Maker (Secondary students)

From the Oregon Publication Network Clearinghouse--Student must enter information from source to build citation (good step-by-step for understanding MLA format)

NoodleBib (MLA)

EasyBib

Son of Citation Machine

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